Who are these people, and who put them in charge for six figures a year, no less? Further proof that the 911 families are right. They have been begging the Feds to take over this monster.

911 family member Sally Regenhard, who lost her only son, a firefighter, wrote:

The ‘pay to grieve’ 9/11 museum is a national disgrace
9/11 family members never wanted a billion-dollar money pit. All we hoped for was a simple, uplifting, honorable and patriotic memorial for all who were lost that terrible September day. Instead, those who want to pay their respects will have to pay Bloomberg & Co.

This iconic picture of firefighters raising the stars and stripes in
the rubble of Ground Zero was nearly excluded from the 9/11 Memorial
Museum — because it was “rah-rah” American, a new book says.

Michael
Shulan, the museum’s creative director, was among staffers who
considered the Tom Franklin photograph too kitschy and “rah-rah
America,” according to “Battle for Ground Zero” (St. Martin’s Press) by
Elizabeth Greenspan, out next month.

“I really believe that the
way America will look best, the way we can really do best, is to not be
Americans so vigilantly and so vehemently,” Shulan said.

Shulan had worked on a popular post-9/11 photography exhibit called
“Here is New York” in Soho when he was hired by Alice Greenwald,
director of the museum, for his “unique approach.”

Eventually,
chief curator Jan Ramirez proposed a compromise, Greenspan writes. The
Franklin shot was minimized in favor of three different photos via three
different angles of the flag-raising scene.

“Several images
undercut the myth of ‘one iconic moment,’ Ramirez said, and suggest
instead an event from multiple points of view, like the attacks more
broadly,” the book says.

“Shulan didn’t like three photographs more than he liked one, but he went along with it.”

Shulan
told The Post he didn’t know that the way Greenspan described the
discussion about the photographs “is the way that I would have.”

“My
concern, as it always was, is that we not reduce [9/11] down to
something that was too simple, and in its simplicity would actually
distort the complexity of the event, the meaning of the event,” he said.

Shulan
was living in Soho on Sept. 11, 2011. He helped organize the “Here is
New York” exhibit shortly after the attack, and it grew to include
thousands of photographs taken by professionals and ordinary New
Yorkers. The collection was later donated to the New-York Historical
Society.

Let's review:

Many 9/11 families have advocated
for the honorable and respectful interment of unidentified 9/11 human
remains at Ground Zero -- but NOT in a Museum. Nearly a decade ago,
families were assured that these remains would be located in a
"separate and distinct repository - separate from any Museum or Visitor
Center." Family groups were promised this by the Lower Manhattan
Development Corporation (LMDC) in writing in 2003, via the "WTC Memorial
Guidelines" written by the Family Advisory Council and agreed to by
the LMDC. At that time, the small number of group leaders who met with
the LMDC could never have imagined that the honorable and respectful
interment promised would result in a shell game that plans to place
9,000 unidentified remains 70 feet (7 stories) below ground in a
dangerous, distasteful and dishonorable manner.

9/11 family
members were faced with the adamant refusal of Joe Daniels, President
& CEO of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum Foundation (9/11MM), to survey
WTC family members in order to ask them for permission to put their
loved ones' remains in a museum. WTC families filed a lawsuit, seeking
to force the City of New York to release the names of the 2,749 family
members whose loved ones died on 9/11, for the purpose of notifying and
seeking the input of the families regarding the City’s and the
9/11MM’s plan.

This has fallen on the deaf ears of Ayatollah Bloomberg.

For this dereliction of duty, these Bloomberg quislings, the 9/11MM officials, have been remunerated handsomely. Daniels pocketed $371,307.
Museum director Alice Greenwald made $351,000, and capital planning
Vice President Joan Gerner soaked up $337,143 before leaving last
spring. Development director Cathy Blaney raked in $322,292. The
full-time foundation employee also worked last year as a fund-raiser for
Gov. Cuomo's election campaign.

None of the 9/11 family members that I have worked with ever wanted a
billion-dollar money pit; all we hoped for was a simple, uplifting,
honorable and patriotic memorial for all who were lost that terrible
September day.

Instead, we have a “money is no object” monstrosity inflicted upon us —
a design we did not choose, and which we bear no responsibility for —
that was incredibly expensive to build and even more logic-defying to
maintain.

In order to pay for this, taxpayers across America have had to pony up
hundreds of millions. Donations from individuals and corporations
brought in hundreds of millions more. And yet, it wasn’t enough.

It’s no wonder, given the fact that the dangerous, dishonorable and
expensive design was fiscally out of control from day one — a fact that I
and many of the 9/11 families continuously raised, but to no avail.

On top of that, the salaries of the top ten memorial-museum officials exceeds $3 million annually.

The museum admission charge is the final insult. Officials have floated
a $25 entry price. How dare they charge visitors to pay respects to
those lost on 9/11, including my son, a firefighter and recon Marine
sergeant?

If his USMC brothers and friends from all over the country want to pay
him respect, they have to pay Bloomberg & Co. $25 first.

What a crime! How many families could afford to pay that?

The memorial-museum planners should be ashamed of themselves. Now is
not the time to tell the public that not only is the construction budget
blown, but the operating budget is shot as well.

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Who are these people, and who put them in charge for six figures a year, no less? Further proof that the 911 families are right. They have been begging the Feds to take over this monster.

911 family member Sally Regenhard, who lost her only son, a firefighter, wrote:

The ‘pay to grieve’ 9/11 museum is a national disgrace
9/11 family members never wanted a billion-dollar money pit. All we hoped for was a simple, uplifting, honorable and patriotic memorial for all who were lost that terrible September day. Instead, those who want to pay their respects will have to pay Bloomberg & Co.

This iconic picture of firefighters raising the stars and stripes in
the rubble of Ground Zero was nearly excluded from the 9/11 Memorial
Museum — because it was “rah-rah” American, a new book says.

Michael
Shulan, the museum’s creative director, was among staffers who
considered the Tom Franklin photograph too kitschy and “rah-rah
America,” according to “Battle for Ground Zero” (St. Martin’s Press) by
Elizabeth Greenspan, out next month.

“I really believe that the
way America will look best, the way we can really do best, is to not be
Americans so vigilantly and so vehemently,” Shulan said.

Shulan had worked on a popular post-9/11 photography exhibit called
“Here is New York” in Soho when he was hired by Alice Greenwald,
director of the museum, for his “unique approach.”

Eventually,
chief curator Jan Ramirez proposed a compromise, Greenspan writes. The
Franklin shot was minimized in favor of three different photos via three
different angles of the flag-raising scene.

“Several images
undercut the myth of ‘one iconic moment,’ Ramirez said, and suggest
instead an event from multiple points of view, like the attacks more
broadly,” the book says.

“Shulan didn’t like three photographs more than he liked one, but he went along with it.”

Shulan
told The Post he didn’t know that the way Greenspan described the
discussion about the photographs “is the way that I would have.”

“My
concern, as it always was, is that we not reduce [9/11] down to
something that was too simple, and in its simplicity would actually
distort the complexity of the event, the meaning of the event,” he said.

Shulan
was living in Soho on Sept. 11, 2011. He helped organize the “Here is
New York” exhibit shortly after the attack, and it grew to include
thousands of photographs taken by professionals and ordinary New
Yorkers. The collection was later donated to the New-York Historical
Society.

Let's review:

Many 9/11 families have advocated
for the honorable and respectful interment of unidentified 9/11 human
remains at Ground Zero -- but NOT in a Museum. Nearly a decade ago,
families were assured that these remains would be located in a
"separate and distinct repository - separate from any Museum or Visitor
Center." Family groups were promised this by the Lower Manhattan
Development Corporation (LMDC) in writing in 2003, via the "WTC Memorial
Guidelines" written by the Family Advisory Council and agreed to by
the LMDC. At that time, the small number of group leaders who met with
the LMDC could never have imagined that the honorable and respectful
interment promised would result in a shell game that plans to place
9,000 unidentified remains 70 feet (7 stories) below ground in a
dangerous, distasteful and dishonorable manner.

9/11 family
members were faced with the adamant refusal of Joe Daniels, President
& CEO of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum Foundation (9/11MM), to survey
WTC family members in order to ask them for permission to put their
loved ones' remains in a museum. WTC families filed a lawsuit, seeking
to force the City of New York to release the names of the 2,749 family
members whose loved ones died on 9/11, for the purpose of notifying and
seeking the input of the families regarding the City’s and the
9/11MM’s plan.

This has fallen on the deaf ears of Ayatollah Bloomberg.

For this dereliction of duty, these Bloomberg quislings, the 9/11MM officials, have been remunerated handsomely. Daniels pocketed $371,307.
Museum director Alice Greenwald made $351,000, and capital planning
Vice President Joan Gerner soaked up $337,143 before leaving last
spring. Development director Cathy Blaney raked in $322,292. The
full-time foundation employee also worked last year as a fund-raiser for
Gov. Cuomo's election campaign.